# Stop Showing me The Vomitus. Please. This is me begging. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 31, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406 "2008-07-31T20:31:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/21 "2008-08-01T03:23:35Z")
I am a journalist by trade and write fiction in my spare time - I realized this gift long ago. But thanks. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/22 "2008-08-01T03:39:07Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] I am a journalist by trade and write fiction in my spare time - I realized this gift long ago. But thanks. [/QUOTE] I haven’t been around for very long, but I’ve enjoyed it when you’re pissed at something or somebody…your descriptions are quite vivid and imaginative! Laughs are had within my belly. I’m sure others here without a lowbrow bone in their bodies look down on some of your more descriptive posts, but I like 'em. Nice work. That depiction of the SDMB server in that other thread as the overloaded, testicle-thwapped mountain yak was very funny, and appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/23 "2008-08-01T04:03:40Z")
Excuse me, please, I have to place a long-distance call to Europe. **YYYUUUUURRRRRUUUUUUUUUPPPP!!!** ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/24 "2008-08-01T05:32:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Slithy Tove** > > some people call you Maurice, 'cause you speak of the vomitus of love I laughed so loud I woke up the cats and now they are angry at me. It was totally worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/25 "2008-08-01T06:51:11Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] I thought this thread would be about the scenes on _America’s Funniest Home Videos_ when people send in tape of their darling infants shitting, puking, snotting, farting, pissing and belching. It’s gotten so that as soon as I see footage of a baby, I change the channel. [/QUOTE] And it seems like it’s always into somebody else’s _mouth_. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/26 "2008-08-01T06:57:58Z")
[QUOTE=SisterCoyote] Never see the IMAX film that shows with BodyWorlds III at USC, then, because not only zit-popping, but zit-popping at IMAX sizes. Eew. [/QUOTE] I was grossed out as soon as I saw “USC”. 😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/27 "2008-08-01T16:50:52Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] I was grossed out as soon as I saw “USC”. 😛😃 [/QUOTE] Yeah, well, if the CalScience Center were at UCLA I’d have been there. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/28 "2008-08-01T18:51:59Z")
Amen! I’m an [emetophobe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emetophobia), and have – thankfully – developed something of a 6th sense for when people are about to throw up on TV. And I have a quick finger with the mute button. I really wish they would quit it. It’s just gross, and usually unnecessary. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/29 "2008-08-01T19:14:29Z")
I think the current recordholder for on-air ralphing has got to be Adam Savage of _Mythbusters_. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/30 "2008-08-01T20:11:37Z")
Wow. I don’t enjoy puking or watching others puke either, but I never had any idea of how very bad it was for others. This makes me even more grateful for my dear darling husband who, when I have a terrible migraine and can’t keep anything down, rushes to my side to put his hands on my shoulders and pull back my hair as I puke. Then he brings me cool water and a damp washcloth. He is the king. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/31 "2008-08-01T21:44:46Z")
My intolerance for all types of matter exiting any body other than my own has an enormous amount to do with my decision to forego children. I concede that some of the movie mentions here were…meaningful? Necessary? I guess if you are going to make it ABOUT the vomit, then it’s tolerable (although, as much as i adore Python in general and Meaning of Life in particular, Mr. Creosote was a bummer for me.). I can’t remember what I was watching recently but I was stunned by the director’s decision to not only share the vomiting experience with us, but to take a few frames to actually pause and ponder the puddle of vomit itself. I mean… seriously? Defend that artistically, please. This was not a matter of seeing the missing ring show up in the barf, nothing like that. The only explanation I can come up with is that the director is boinking or wants to boink the special effects person and it was a little token of love. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/32 "2008-08-02T00:17:31Z")
[QUOTE=FoieGrasIsEvil] Movie puking doesn’t bother me. Real puking does. When I’ve helped my six year old son vomit into the toilet, it’s all I can do to keep from retching myself. It’s not the sound nor sight of it, but the _smell_. [/QUOTE] [Wayne Campbell] Hey! Garth, get it together, man. 'Cause if you hurl, and I catch a whiff of it, man.. I’m gonna spew. And if I blow chunks, chances are someone else is gonna honk, alright? And that’s gonna set off a parastolic reaction, alright? [/Wayne Campbell] ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/33 "2008-08-02T03:37:03Z")
Agree with the OP. The only exception being the yarn vomit in Hitchhiker’s Guide… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/34 "2008-08-02T03:44:56Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] some people call you Maurice, 'cause you speak of the vomitus of love [/QUOTE] But shouldn’t they be calling you Ralph? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/35 "2008-08-02T04:48:56Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] …do you think you could ease up on the male-ass scenes? [/QUOTE] Are you equating the male ass with vomitus? ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/36 "2008-08-02T04:51:51Z")
I agree with the OP. I do not want to see puke or puking. I was getting into Mad Men, when–nope, didn’t need to see that. Sure, the three-martini lunch, with dessert, then the stairclimbing was clever, but I did NOT NEED TO SEE that. Also, Morgan Spurlock, or whoever you were–I probably would have bought Super Size Me on DVD, but I won’t, because of the barf bit. NO barfing. No spitting. No pooping. Oh, also agree on America’s Funniest Videos. I’ll watch it for dogs and other animals and occasionally funny children, but if I even SENSE a baby spit-up tape is imminent, I switch it away. Enough. No more. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/37 "2008-08-02T05:33:00Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > How does making me want to disgorge the contents of my OWN stomach > [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Movie puking doesn’t bother me. Real puking does. When I’ve helped my six year old son vomit into the toilet, it’s all I can do to keep from retching myself. It’s not the sound nor sight of it, but the smell. For the record, this is called the [Vomit Chain Reaction](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VomitChainReaction), according to TV Tropes. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/38 "2008-08-02T05:55:41Z")
Give me the sound, which communicates “vomiting” better than the coughing shorthand of old, but please spare me the visuals. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/39 "2008-08-02T06:58:52Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] do you think you could ease up on the male-ass scenes? [/QUOTE] Sure, if they ease up on the chick boob scenes. Well, okay, if it’s comedy male ass scenes, then yes, but the copious amounts of hot male ass in _Rome_ makes up for it. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/40 "2008-08-02T07:05:31Z")
If I’ve got to see a guy’s ace, I’d rather it be one that’s in good shape, not Seth Rogen’s/ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406.md?page=3)